“Under the paradigm of difference”: film club, masculinities and gay negritude in technical-integrated high school

Abstract

This article is based on the application of an Educational Product (PE), typified as a “Film Club Extension Project”, from a Master's research in the area of Teaching, aimed at the Technical-Integrated High School of the Federal Institute of Pernambuco (IFPE). It was used a mixed questionnaire of combined approach, rationalizing the evaluation of the screening/debate on the American drama “Moonlight” (2016), covering categories such as “masculinities”, “negritude” and “homosexuality”, permeated in the three phases of the character's life: childhood, youth, adulthood. The film was selected through a mapping of cinematographic productions on digital platforms (2002 to 2022), scanning 32 ones which combined the triad “man”, “black”, “gay”. The results of the evaluation by the 60 participants in the session demonstrated an widespread acceptability of the PE as an ongoing extension program, using the film club as a didactic-pedagogical resource in everyday teaching. It was also noted how much the implementation enhances empathy and underlies intersectional sensitization to social distinctions as marks of difference – work, class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, etc. The conclusion is that film clubs can substantiate critical pedagogies and germinate political awareness at the heart of omnilateral education, raising narratives that converge with the assumption of an “education for differences”.